Members of the Consortium "Leaders of Mining Education - Far East" took part in a strategic session held at the Far East and Arctic Development Corporation (FEDC). During the event, the participants summed up the results of work for 2024, and also selected priority projects and goals of the Consortium for 2025. Among them are the advanced provision of the industry with personnel and technologies, cooperation between universities and industry, and an assessment of the effectiveness of the association's participants. The meeting was attended by heads of mining companies, as well as representatives of educational institutions in the Far East, including the Pacific National University (PNU) and the North-Eastern State University (NESU).
"The mining industry is one of the defining ones for the Khabarovsk Territory and the Far East as a whole. For its development, it requires personnel and technology. That is why the SIGMA engineering school was created at PNU on its own initiative to train specialists for enterprises working with ore and metal. Our task is to prepare advanced engineers, and this can only be achieved in direct cooperation with enterprises and colleagues from other educational and scientific organizations. That is why it is so important to act together in a consortium format – to exchange experience and best practices, to ensure complementarity of competencies, coordination of actions on development of technologies for different stages and technological areas. We need to ensure the transition from competition to cooperation in the interests of our students and the country,” said PNU Rector Yuri Marfin.